The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-15
PERSONAL.

MARK TWAIN will be 50 years of age in Novem-
Der.
JOY wo is the contradictory name of San
Francisco ChinaPan.
HENRY IRVING advocates government super
vision of popular entertainments.
LADY COLIN CAMPBELL is earning pin money
by writing for the London Saturday Revie,c.
Miss GwYNNE, Mrs Cornelius Vanderbt's
sister has lust broken her engagement with Mr.
Beatty at Narragansett.
GEN G. W. CusTIs LEE is improving, and
hopes to be able soon TO resume his duties as
President of the Washington and Lee Univer-
sity.
GEN GREEDY, Chief of the Signal Service
has gone to Europe for two months Now is
the time for Virgins to get in his fine cyclonic
work
Tony HART, the New York actor and manag-
err, has lost mis- fortune since leaving Mr.. Ed
ward Harrigan. He is now seriously i'll with a
throat affection, the result of applying make
up paints for theatrical work.
THE Republicans of Roanoke. Va, have nomi-
mated for the State Senate Col. u. +. Houston.
| He is a native of Pennsylvania, and ten years
! ago was the Republican candidate for Congress
in the district so long represented by Samuel j.
Randall.
Now for the oldest postmaster. This time his
name is Roswell Beardsley, and he ticks postage
stamps at North lansing, N Y, He was elevated
to the position of p, NJ. June %, 1928. and he has
held it ever since under his original commission
nearly sixty years
PRoF. DANA, of Yale College, reached San
Francisco last week from Hawaii where he
spent one week studying the crater Of Kilauea
He Ind examined the volcano forty years
ago, and found, on his recent visit, that it had
not aged as much as he had in the intervening
years.
MARY ANDERSON opened her season at the Ly-
ceum Theatre London. on Saturday night with
an elaborate production of "A Winters Tale, "
| in which she plays both 'Hermione and Perdi-
to-" The cable reports say more about the
sumptuous costumes than about the perform
ance which appears, however, to have been
success.
SECRETARY ENDicoTT is very fond of having
his picture taken. A photographer says that
Mr.. Endicott Is one of the best customers among
public men that he has ever known Mr.. Endi-
colt, it is said, orders dozen or more pictures
every two or three weeks. He is good sub
1ect for thecamera. lie poses in dgnined and
striking manner, and looks every inch de-
scendant from Mayfiower stock.
GES. BERDAN, who Is known i'm army circles as
the General Of Sharpshooters," is one of the
popular club men in Washington. just at pres
ent he is receiving congratulations upon the
fact that his sonin-law. f. Marion Crawford,
the novelist, has been the successful competitor
for the position of poet laureate at the consttu-
tional celebration al Philadelphia. Mr.. Craw-
ford's poem will be read from the platform at
the public exercises on Sept. IL. Mr. Crawford
is now at his home In Sorrento, Italy.
TuE Confederate General. Longstreet, intro
duccd Gen Grant 10 Miss Julia Dent, who is now
Gen Grants widow LonRstreets mother was
a Dent. on graduating from the Military Acad-
envy LongStreet was assigned % command,
aud was stationed at jefferson Barracks, below
S. Louis While there he visited his relatives,
the Dents, on the Grayoi3 road, and when Grant
was assigned ia the same regiment with Long.
street, the latter accompanied him ON his first
visit 90 the Dent place, and presented 'the little
mnn with the big epaulettes," as Grant was
sometimes called IN those days. 10 his future
wife.